Student Projects at Washburn University

2009

Jake Thomas – project involved being a Senior Bonner Leader

Clint Herrman, Kate Larson, Morgan Schaeffer, Amanda Vervaecke – project been helped establish a clear strategy and implementation plan for the development and optimization of organizational and individual relationships beyond the campus environment for the Leadership Institute

2010

Kylie Gilstrap – project partnered with Washburn Education Association to rebuild the relationship between the Washburn Education Association and KNEA

Lauren Eckert – project was to intern as a Summer Orientation Counselor

2011

Sam Blasi – partnered with the Washburn School of Business to create a project involving International Business and Entrepreneurship

2012

Shea Kirsop – project was to organize, create, and oversee the 2012 Leadership Challenge Event as the LCE Student Director

Alex Burke – partnered with the Washburn School of Business to be the class manager for the Applied Portfolio Management course.

Jessica Bosworth – partnered with the Occupational Therapy program to pilot a program with the Leadership Institute

Merideth Cline – partnered with the Biology Department to research Emerald Ash Borer and its relationship to the Ash trees in Gage Park

Bobby Chipman – partnered with the Athletic Department to lead basketball camps across Kansas and different countries (Topeka, Wichita, Dodge City, Ulysses, Sweden, and Denmark)

Rashaell Fischer, Lauren Klem, Eli Johns – project worked with the Leadership Institute’s Leadership Challenge Event to design and develop a plan to transition the entire process of judging, scoring and participant feedback from a paper process to an electronic solution.

2013

Kyle Schmidt – partnered with the Biology Department to create a pathology slide library for the biology department

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What's an Ichabod?

Washburn's mascot, the Ichabod, honors the school's early benefactor, Ichabod Washburn, a 19th century Massachusetts industrialist. The original design of the studious-looking, tuxedo-clad figure was created in 1938 by Bradbury Thompson (ba '34), who became an internationally acclaimed graphic artist. Design wasn't Thompson's only consideration. To the stylized Ichabod the artist attributed the qualities of "...courage and enthusiasm, as shown by his brisk walk. He is democratic and courteous, for he tips his hat as he passes. Sincere in his search for truth and knowledge, he studiously carries a book under his arm..."